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If I remember correctly, the first use of split screen may have been in the 1949 movie “Jolson Sings Again”. In one shot, Larry Parks is seen as Al Jolson and as himself while recreating the filming of “The Jolson Story”. James Cameron was married to Linda Hamilton for a number of years, until he dumped her for Suzy Amis.

Another use of real life twin actors I recall for this was in the TV show Sliders, which featured characters travelling to parallel worlds. Occasionally they’d find doubles of themselves in different circumstances. For most of the actors, they did the split screen thing if their doubles interacted… but for Cleavant Derricks Jr, who played Rembrandt “Cryin’ Man” Brown, they often recruited his twin brother, actor Clinton Derricks-Carroll.

Buster Keaton did this back in the 1920s. Even creating scenes where there were 6 or more Busters running around and “interacting”.

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